Appeal No. 95-4379
Application 08/116,753
Appellants' invention pertains to an air bag for a
vehicle occupant restraint system. Independent claim 2, a
copy of which is appended to appellants' brief, is
illustrative of the appealed subject matter.2
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of a rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Takada 4,966,389 Oct. 30, 1990
Kami et al. (Kami) 5,114,180 May 19, 1992
Matsumoto et al. (Matsumoto) 5,215,795 Jun. 1,
1993
Claims 2-5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Matsumoto in view of Takada and further in
view of Kami.
Like appellants' invention, Matsumoto, the examiner’s
2We observe that the warp and weft orientation
limitation called for in the last paragraph of claim 2 is not
illustrated in appellants' drawings, as required by 37 CFR §
1.83(a). We further observe that appellants' Figure 2
attempts to illustrate two alternative embodiments of the
claimed invention (namely, the “crescent-shaped section”
embodiment of claim 3 and the “kidney-shaped section”
embodiment of claim 4) in apparent violation of 37 CFR §
1.84(h)(5). Upon return of the application to the examiner,
correction of these drawing informalities would be
appropriate.
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